Results 721-740 of 1,597 for speaker:Cecilia Keaveney

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Mar 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: I commend the launch of the journal from the Centre for Cross-Border Studies. It is another excellent production by Andy Pollak and the rest of the group in Armagh that is concerned with ongoing work between the North and South. I know that Senator Leyden raised the issue of the Lisbon treaty. We all know that Europe has been extremely good to us in respect of moneys for various things....

Seanad: Criminal Law (Human Trafficking) Bill 2007: Report and Final Stages (11 Mar 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: I am pleased the amendments were tabled on the basis that they give some airing to an issue that deserves to be debated. I left my office to attend this debate on that basis. I am confused as to whether this is the right forum. Men in here might be shocked to hear me putting a viewpoint from the other perspective, but should I have the wish to avail of the oldest profession in the world, do...

Seanad: Criminal Law (Human Trafficking) Bill 2007: Report and Final Stages (11 Mar 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: I do not mind getting help to clarify this. At the moment, if I try to secure sexual services I have to be sure that the person is eastern European, and then I know I am committing a crime. However, if I approach someone who has not been trafficked, but is eastern European, then I am safe but a crime may be committed. I thought that under the Constitution there had to be an element of...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Mar 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: There are 1,800 teachers——

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Mar 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: Binge drinking has been defined as five drinks in one sitting for a man and four drinks for a woman. The latest EU survey states that 34% of Irish people are usually binge drinkers and that Ireland is followed by England as having the highest level of binge drinking in Europe. The number of off-licenses in Ireland has increased from 600 to 1,800 in seven years. The EU barometer survey...

Seanad: Cross-Border Business Park (6 Mar 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: I wish to raise the need for a cross-Border business park in east Donegal and I have in mind locations including, among others, Muff, Bridgend, Newtowncunningham, areas around Killea and Carrigans. There is an obvious location at Bridgend that may have greater benefits than the other areas on the basis of its proximity to Buncrana, which the IDA has earmarked for focussed investment. I am...

Seanad: Cross-Border Business Park (6 Mar 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: Go raibh maith agat.

Seanad: Passports Bill 2007: Second Stage (5 Mar 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: I did not expect to be speaking on this Bill until I was in the Chair, and I wish to take up from where Senator Boyle left off. Many of my comments will be related to the fact that I am from Donegal, which is geographically north of the North and politically in the South, something that confuses in many ways. I am not au fait with the adoption laws in the North, but given that passports are...

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Mar 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: Are we no longer allowed to have meetings?

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Mar 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: As someone who was born in Derry at the end of November 1968, the retirement of Dr. Paisley is a momentous occasion. The point was made earlier that the people who were the strongest in saying "No" have become the strongest in saying "Yes". At the recent Sinn Féin Ard-Fheis the wish was expressed by a number of delegates that Dr. Paisley would not retire in the near future, which is some...

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Mar 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: It is very much part of the solution and must be dealt with. The implementation of the EPSEN Act was very much part of what she spoke about that day. In that context, I congratulate the Cork Institute of Technology. Some of the money it is getting for research will go towards examining music as a therapy and teaching music as a subject as well as what other people would call the more...

Seanad: Health Policy (28 Feb 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: I thank the Cathaoirleach for allowing me to raise this matter on the Adjournment. The programme for Government refers to the establishment of a freely available and personalised national programme for personal health checks to provide for the prevention and early detection of illnesses in respect of both men and women. The Government has been in office for more than six months and the...

Seanad: Health Policy (28 Feb 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: I have a comment I would ask the Minister of State to relay to the Minister for Health and Children. I was a student in Jordanstown for a number of years and even now I will get called for cervical smear tests in the North every two years. If I do not follow up that appointment, I get a letter asking me to sign a disclaimer indicating I have voluntarily refused not to take up the offer. I...

Seanad: Coast Guard Stations: Statements (Resumed). (27 Feb 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: It is not often we speak on an issue with one voice in terms of cross-party and cross-county support. We are all saying the same thing. These centres have been under attack by some body or group for many years. I have fought left, right and centre in my corner for them for many years. I would like to think that my intervention in the past helped ensure the outcome referred to in the...

Seanad: Coast Guard Stations: Statements (Resumed). (27 Feb 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: The purchase of two new sites in urban areas is bound to be much more expensive than upgrading the existing sites at Malin Head and Valentia.

Seanad: Coast Guard Stations: Statements (Resumed). (27 Feb 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: Well done.

Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Statements (Resumed). (21 Feb 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: If the Senator had been here earlier he would have heard the Minister.

Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Statements (Resumed). (21 Feb 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: No, it is not, but there are far more than there were in the past.

Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Statements (Resumed). (21 Feb 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: We got nothing when the Senator's party was in power.

Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Statements (Resumed). (21 Feb 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: Look at the schools situation in 1997.